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These galleries are intended to provide an introduction

to Abstract Expressionism and the art of the 1950s.

"While calling themselves abstract expressionists, the artists of

the New York School did not think of themselves as a coherent

group with common ideals. The most that can be said for the unity

of the school was that its members shared a range of attitudes

derived principally from the despair and anxiety of the times.

All of the artists insisted on spontaneity, intensity of feeling, and a vast

range of individual choices, materials, and situations. In practice, after

all the talking, the goal of these American artists became the realization

of an entirely new pictoral style, one synthesized from cubism and

surrealism and fully equal to these in ambition and accomplishemnt.

Within this spectrum each remained an individual, each had access to

an infinite set of options, each strained in a personal direction."

-William Fleming

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